Plagues of the mind : the new epidemic of false knowledge / / Bruce S. Thornton
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| Autore: |
Thornton Bruce S.
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| Titolo: |
Plagues of the mind : the new epidemic of false knowledge / / Bruce S. Thornton
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| Pubblicazione: | Wilmington, Delaware : , : ISI Books, , [1999] |
| ©1999 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 149.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Truthfulness and falsehood |
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| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page; Title Page; Contents; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Of the Causes of Error; CHAPTER 1: Knowledge is Virtue; CHAPTER 2: "Feeling is All"; CHAPTER 3: Discontented with Civilization; CHAPTER 4: Tragedy and Therapy; PART II: Of Three Popular and Received Ideas; CHAPTER 5: Romantic Environmentalism; CHAPTER 6: The White Man's Golden Age Red Man; CHAPTER 7: The False Goddess and Her Lost Paradise; CONCLUSION The Examined Life; NOTES; INDEX; Copyright Page |
| Sommario/riassunto: | <DIV>A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America's tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton's <I>Plagues of the Mind</I> is a forceful vindication of the West's tradition of rational, critical inquiry-a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.<BR /><BR /><br clear=""all"" /> </DIV> |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Plagues of the mind |
| ISBN: | 1-4976-4893-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910478903303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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